Ok guys, its lashed down with rain in Liverpool today & I came back to my Mk1 and discovered that the fuel filler cap was covered by rain water. the drain hole in the fuel filler well is obviously blocked. So where the hell does it exit? how can I unblock it? Why doesn’t the club have an on line service manual available so we can refer to it? And another thing! I’ve spent 45 minutes looking all over the site for a way to try and post a new topic… THE HELP SITE IS RUBBISH! It tells you about what fonts you can use and stuff like that. All I want to know is how to post a new topic. Administrators Please re-write this help bit so it’s actually helpful! I know about going round corners quickly in a 5 but I aint a computer geek. I can’t believe you have to enter a topic before you have any chance of communicating with other members. Surely a more user friendly method would be to have an easy access “new post” area that would only allow you to post to the site but only after you had checked a drop down subject box like “bodywork and interior”. I had to phone Paul our area co-ordinator to find out how to do a new post. I was deeply ashamed…
Rant rant rant rant rant rant!
Whoa! glad I got that off my chest!
Anyway!
About that pesky blocked fuel filler drain… anybody got any ideas?
Ok so now I’m DEEPLY ashamed! My whole car isn’t as clean as that filler neck! Sob sob! I’m still a bit stressed out about shoving something down the drain hole in case I pierce the rubber tubing, where does the tube come out? I can’t see it in the wheel arch or any where else for that matter…
Russ - a trombone cleaner does both that and the hood drain holes too. Little brush on the end is not too abrasive and does it perfectly. Loads on eBay for next to nothing! Trust me, it works
A length of old fashioned plastic covered flexible curtain wire (used to hang net curtains) does for me.
I keep it rolled up in the boot, and it does the hood rain drains behind the seats, and is also slim enough to fit down the rubber drains on each side at the top of the windscreen.
This is a photo of the exit on an NB, you can see the trombone cleaner sticking out from it. I’d guess that the exit on the NA is in a similar position…
In fact, I think that if you look in the jack storage well you’ll find the pipe there.
Perhaps I’m too used to microsoft outlook type sites… you know the kind of thing… top right hand corner nice big easy to spot letters …“NEW EMAIL”. But Hey! Look on the positive side! I’ve learnt something!.. Well two things really… how to post a new topic and something new and unexpectedly exciting to do with a trombone cleaning brush. Colleagues at work think I’m just being perverted when I ask them to come and see if it’s poking out of an orifice in my dear little 5’s rear end… Now I must go and investigate some other holes with my new tool! [:-"]
+1 to this. I followed the advice here and got a trombone brush from eBay, about a fiver. It works well. It’s a bit of a fiddle finding the holes to push it down, but once you have found the top end of the tubes it’s a doddle.
